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Sedona, Arizona
Lilac Tri American Bully for Sale
Nothing lilac tri in the current group, and I’d sooner tell you that than steer you toward a coat that is close and hope you don’t look twice. Everything I do have is further down.
I’ve no lilac tri puppies in the current group. The coat is very rare in the breed, and the first thing worth saying is that scarcity and quality are two separate measurements. I’m Greg Harpson, I’ve bred American Bullies here since 2015, and coat is the last thing I select for, well behind temperament and behind structure.
Nothing lilac tri standing this week
Coats turn over litter by litter, and dressing up a near match as the real thing helps nobody. Tell me the coat you’re set on and I’ll say plainly whether it’s on the way. What’s actually here is just below.
Here’s what is here instead
These coats are in the group today, and I’ve put the nearest thing to lilac tri at the front so you can judge it for yourself.
The genetics behind a lilac tri coat
Three recessives stacked in one animal: b/b at the B locus for the chocolate base, d/d at the D locus to dilute it to lilac, and at at the A locus for the tan points, with white spotting completing the third colour. Both parents have to carry the whole set for a puppy to show it.
Reading a lilac tri, and what it gets muddled with
Mistaken for blue tri constantly, and the two get mislabelled in listings all the time because the difference is a warmth of tone that cameras handle badly. Lilac carries a brownish cast off the chocolate sitting underneath it, where blue is cleanly grey. The nose in natural daylight is the honest check: lilac reads mauve or liver, blue reads slate.
Where lilac tri sits in the breed
Lilac tri is one of the few coats in this breed where the scarcity is genuine rather than invented. It needs three separate recessive genes to line up in the same puppy, and that does not happen by accident. But scarcity and quality are not the same measurement, and this is worth saying plainly: a lilac tri is not healthier, not better tempered and not better built than the brindle sleeping next to it in the same litter, and the genes that make it lilac are the same ones tied to coat trouble later in life. If you want one, want it because of how it looks to you.
At the very scarce end of the breed, and unlike several coats that are sold as rare, this one has the genetics to back the claim up, since three recessives really do have to meet. That is also why it sits among the coats the loudest sellers push hardest, so the figures attached to it tend to run well past the effort of producing a single healthy litter.
To place it against its neighbours, here is how lilac tri compares on how scarce it really is and on how often buyers go looking for it. The coats beside it in the table are the ones people most often weigh against lilac tri.
| Coat | Rarity | Monthly searches |
|---|---|---|
| Lilac Tri | Very rare | 390/mo |
| Blue Tri | Uncommon | 140/mo |
| Lilac | Rare | 170/mo |
| Chocolate Tri | Rare | 320/mo |
| Tri Color | Uncommon | 320/mo |
What this coat means for the dog’s health
The dilution risk applies, because a lilac is a diluted dog by definition, so colour dilution alopecia is in play. There is no merle risk unless merle happens to be present separately.
Plenty of diluted dogs carry a perfect coat their whole lives, so this is a thing to understand rather than a thing to fear. It isn’t painful and it isn’t dangerous. It is permanent once it appears, it needs managing, and it is tied specifically to the diluted coats, which is a detail the glossiest listings tend to leave out.
Beyond the coat, the rest is about the breed rather than the colour. The full picture is here, and you can see how every coat lines up.
I don’t screen or certify the parents and I won’t pretend otherwise. What I do stand behind: every puppy is examined by Bell Rock Veterinary Clinic before it leaves, it has had DHPP with the booster and the canine influenza shot by ten weeks and been dewormed between two and ten weeks, the written record travels with it, and you take it to your own vet inside the first week. Any dog I breed can come back to me at any point in its life.
Set on a lilac tri?
Tell me what you’re after and I’ll say honestly whether it’s coming, rather than take a deposit against something I can’t promise.